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James Baker hosted his third professional services round table on 29th May 2020. This session brought a number of topics of conversation, and happily the news for one of the firms in attendance had re-opened their London office (as well as a number of other offices across the globe) to a small number of employees who were keen to reconnect with their colleagues in person. Th...

We all know how challenging the last few months have been both personally and professionally. Lauren Taylor HR & People Transformation expert was interviewed by our Director, Lucy Bielby about how organisations can effectively look to the future and identify how they can operate as efficiently as possible. Lauren has supported organisations including BT, British American Tob...

Lauren Taylor HR & People Transformation expert was interviewed by our Director, Lucy Bielby about how organisations can effectively look to the future and identify how they can operate as efficiently as possible. Lauren has supported organisations including BT, British American Tobacco and more recently Marsh & McLennan through periods of change. In a series of questions, L...

Lauren Taylor HR & People Transformation expert was interviewed by our Director, Lucy Bielby about how organisations can effectively look to the future and identify how they can operate as efficiently as possible. Lauren has supported organisations including BT, British American Tobacco and more recently Marsh & McLennan through periods of change. In a series of questions, L...

We all know how challenging the last few months have been both personally and professionally. Lauren Taylor HR & People Transformation expert was interviewed by our Director, Lucy Bielby about how organisations can effectively look to the future and identify how they can operate as efficiently as possible. Lauren has supported organisations including BT, British American Tob...

Working and looking after kids just doesn’t work. Take comfort from the fact that no one with small kids is doing a good job and that’s a lot of the population. Most people/bosses/companies get it, but that doesn’t actually help when you are trying to fit it all in and you now have new financial worries. ​ A combination of worry, pressure, anxiety, fear, guilt and exhaustion...

Welcome to the first in our series of Hiring Q&As. Our Associate Director, Steven Hayes has spent the last few weeks speaking to his HR network; candidates exploring the market and clients to discuss how they are dealing with the current situation. In this video series he answers some of the key questions and topics that have come up as part of these discussions. Who is hiring?

James Baker was delighted to host our inaugural virtual round table for CHRO’s in professional services firms on Friday 1st May 2020. A fantastic group of people from a really broad selection of partnerships and professional services businesses joined the conversation, talking through some of the key challenges they are facing in today’s world. The conversation kicked off di...

Following on from my interview with Leng Montgomery earlier in the year, it is my pleasure to release the second interview in my D&I series for the year with Jake Hobson, Diversity, Inclusion and Responsible Business Associate Director at CBRE, with a focus on neurodiversity. Sometimes though we find that the D&I space has not developed as it should within business and it is...

To say it has been an interesting 2020 so far for the recruitment industry, would perhaps, be an understatement. We are fortunate that the markets we recruit into are office-based, and most people’s work is produced digitally – whether that’s implementing an HR System, calculating bonus payments or running a headcount report, you’re using a computer and can probably work usi...